In an attempt to revive Egypt's crucial tourism industry, its government has launched a series of sensational projects.

Popular in the 18th century were events at which mummies were dissected by doctors and passed around the audience to be touched, smelt and tasted. Mummymania installation view.
Jodie HutchinsonOctober 25, 2015

Egyptian mummies have fascinated Europeans since the 5th century, but a new exhibition considers the more recent role they have played in medicine, art and popular culture – and the ethics of their display in museums.

The village of Deir el-Medina in the West Bank of Luxor, Egypt.
Anne AustinFebruary 16, 2015

What’s the betting that Agilkia makes it into the baby name charts in 2015? This romantic, lyrical word is the name of an island in the Egyptian Nile, but it’s also just been given to the patch of Comet…

There was much more to mummification than material.
Flood G./FlickrAugust 13, 2014

For the first time, scientific evidence has shown that prehistoric Egyptians experimented with techniques to preserve bodies around 4000BC, some 1,500 years before artificial mummification was believed…

It’s not easy undertaking archaeological work in Egypt currently – but a major new find illuminates a torrid period in Egyptian history.
Neil and Kathy CareyFebruary 5, 2014

Last month’s discovery in South Abydos, in Egypt – of the remains of the pharaoh, Senekbay, which date to the Second Intermediate Period (c. 1750-1550 BC) – sheds new light on a complex and divided period…